Child

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

Child, Julia 1912-2004. American cookery expert known for her books and her instructional television and video series.

Child, Lydia Maria Francis 1802-1880. American abolitionist and writer of novels, children's books, and reform works, such as Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans (1833).

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Examples

_Amy Duny_ looking after her Child one Day in her absence, did at her return confess, that she had _given suck to the Child_: (tho 'she were an Old Woman:) Whereat, when _Durent_ expressed her displeasure, _Duny_ went away with Discontents and Menaces.

Ybarra, who spoke at a 2009 Congressional briefing arranged by The Alliance for Racial Equity in Child Welfare, teared up as she explained that she had to divorce her husband of 23 years so his legal problems wouldn't prevent her from having the kids.

Thanks to the blog Julie/Julia and the book of the same title, Julia Child is in all of our imaginations right now (thank you, Julie Powell — if you have not read her original blog, I highly recommend starting at the beginning here).